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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: Hadda Brooks, Fats Domino, Jimmy Yancey, Dr. John, Winifred Atwell, Wilhelm Schroter, Jools Holland, James Booker, James Crutchfield, Pinetop Perkins, Henry Gray, Champion Jack Dupree, Michael Kaeshammer, Walter Roland, Big Joe Duskin, Axel Zwingenberger, Albert Ammons, Robert Shaw, Dan Burley, Vince Weber, Speckled Red, Pete Johnson, Mose Vinson, Gene Taylor, Erskine Butterfield, Whistlin' Alex Moore, Mr. B., Booker T. Laury, Little Willie Littlefield, Mitch Woods, Pinetop Smith, Charlie Spand, Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne, Blind John Davis, Lafayette Leake, Silvan Zingg, Cripple Clarence Lofton, Meade Lux Lewis, Garland Wilson, Big Maceo Merriweather, Katie Webster, Boogie Woogie Red, Dorothy Donegan, Neville Dickie, Cow Cow Davenport, Sammy Price, Romeo Nelson, Bob Hall, Tuts Washington, Hersal Thomas, George W. Thomas, Bob Page, Bob Seeley, Camille Howard, Jimmy Blythe, Montana Taylor, Deanna Bogart, Joe Turner, William Turk. Excerpt: Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino Jr. (born February 26, 1928) is an American R&B and rock and roll pianist and singer-songwriter. He was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Creole was his first language. Fats Domino singing "Blueberry Hill" on "The Alan Freed Show" circa 1956Domino first attracted national attention with "The Fat Man" in 1949 on Imperial Records. This song is an early rock and roll record, featuring a rolling piano and Domino doing "wah-wah" vocalizing over a strong back beat. It sold over a million copies and is widely regarded as the first rock and roll record to do so. Fats Domino released a series of hit songs with producer and co-writer Dave Bartholomew, saxophonists Herbert Hardesty and Alvin "Red" Tyler and drummer Earl Palmer. Other notable and long-standing musicians in Domino's band were saxophonists Reggie Houston, Lee Allen, and Fred Kemp, ...
